The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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